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MOMENTS OF REPRIEVE
PRIMO LEVI

ABACUS (LITTLE, BROWN), 1994

Moments of Reprieve (Penguin Modern Classics)
Primo Levi

Penguin Classics, 2002

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness. Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, 'the ones in whom I had recognized the will and ...

Moments of Reprieve: A Memoir of Auschwitz (Twentieth Century Classics)

4 reviews
Primo Levi

Penguin Classics, 1995

discover this book!!!
it was recommended by a good friend of mine to read a certain book by this author. i couldn't get my hands on the book recommended, but i decided to try this one at random. i was not disappointed. i thought this book was excellent. it is full of short stories about several people who levi remembers from his time in auschwitz. it is not a heavy book about the holocaust, it is a collection of ...